Read to John Fante's widow

Elderly and living in a Santa Monica nursing home, the former editor and poet Joyce Fante — mother of writer Dan Fante — wants a strong-voiced actor to read classic poetry to her two afternoons a week. She is willing to pay $25 an hour. LA.comfidential has details and the anecdote that when John Fante went blind from diabetes, he dictated his final book, Dreams From Bunker Hill, to Joyce.